A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself. – Lord Brougham
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. – Frank Zappa
Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. – JustinianI, Law Code, A.D. 535
Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. – H.L. Mencken
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. – Michel de Montaigne, translated
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government. – Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in The Match!
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. – Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing as justice — in or out of court. – Clarence Darrow, 1936
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. – Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. – Remy de Gourmont
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. – Edmund Burke
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. – Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own
Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. – Bill Messing, quoted in Dream World, by Fred Woodworth
